AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK

Co-presented with SEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY.

University of California at San Diego scholar and human rights activist, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick draws on more than fifteen years of work and research, and looks tellingly at present-day traffickers and slaveholders in his book, What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do (Columbia University Press).

“A much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated.” - Kevin Bales. For more information on Seattle Against Slavery, please see www.seattleagainstslavery.org.